by Ned Rorem
on art and artistic life, 39–40, 42, 52, 103, 114–15, 117, 133, 299, 304, 326, 327, 370, 466–67
birth of, 28
chickenpox suffered by, 349–50
childhood and adolescence of, 28, 31–135
at college, 135, 138–42, 144, 154–58, 160, 162, 165, 173, 237, 242, 244, 277
as composer, 52, 81, 101–2, 103, 121, 156–58, 179, 181, 236–37, 244, 254–256, 258–61, 263, 272, 273, 275, 288, 302, 309, 311–12, 316, 317, 319–20, 322, 328, 338, 345, 347–48, 350–52, 385–87, 396, 415–16, 419–20, 423, 426–27, 435, 436–40, 479–80, 487–488, 502, 544, 545, 559, 560–61, 575, 578, 579 (see also specific works)
as copyist, 197–98, 208–9, 210, 213, 215, 220, 221, 223, 234
daily agendas kept by, 286–87, 300–301
as described in other people’s memoirs, 381–84
diaries of, 42, 142, 244–45, 270–78, 319–320, 325–34, 357–80, 384, 488–490
draft status of, 98, 161, 173, 326, 433
dreams and nightmares of, 33, 102, 217, 270–71, 272, 276, 328, 332, 333, 357, 358–59, 363, 365, 372, 516–17
drinking and alcoholism of, 55, 95, 104, 113, 114, 121–22, 130–31, 143–44, 151, 152, 187, 201, 214, 227, 273, 330–31, 333, 334, 343, 349, 358, 359, 360, 367, 381, 382, 383, 393, 401–2, 429, 440, 459, 500, 517, 528, 568
driving abilities of, 113
earliest musical experiences of, 41–42, 46–47, 53–55
earliest sexual experiences of, 44–45, 93–96, 98–99, 116, 122, 126–31, 136
education of, 31, 36, 45, 48, 51–52, 59, 79, 89–90, 107, 108, 133, 134–35, 420
as essayist, 322–23
on fidelity, 162–63
financial support of, 63, 430, 561
first airplane ride of, 250
first commission received by, 191, 196
first compositions by, 81
first dead person seen by, 62
first earnings of, 55–56
first European trip of, 83–88
first public performances of, 133–34
first published work of, 263
first recorded work of, 419
first song cycle of, 479
handwriting of, 73
hemorrhoidectomy of, 504–5, 506, 510, 528
homosexuality of, 40, 51, 61, 89, 93–96, 104, 186, 217, 343
inferiority complex of, 110
insomnia of, 88
as memoir writer, 42, 127, 467, 490, 515, 561–62, 585–87
on musical performers and performance, 155–57, 177, 230–31, 493–94, 499
musical training of, 47, 48, 62–63, 64, 102–3, 120, 135, 139, 140–41, 144, 155, 162, 165, 166–202, 216–17, 220–21, 226–27, 234–35, 237–38, 280–82, 286–288, 292–98, 306–7, 336, 350, 576, 579
myopia of, 78, 90, 91
Norwegian forbears of, 26, 35–36, 455
parents’ deaths and, 13–23
passivity of, 95, 131
physical appearance of, 20, 35, 89, 186, 383
as pianist, 46, 47, 48, 52, 62–63, 64, 79, 81, 102–3, 133–34, 139, 141, 144, 155–156, 162, 168, 171, 226–27, 234–35, 238, 239–41, 242, 245–48, 250, 251–52, 288, 386, 423, 481
political views of, 81–82, 115–16, 126, 133, 313, 457–58
portraits of, 519–20, 565, 567
public virtuoso’s life rejected by, 155–156
reading and literary tastes of, 79, 142, 199–200, 236, 244, 301, 363, 378, 421, 442, 449–50, 454–55, 484, 490, 500, 502, 505, 506, 510, 518, 551, 553, 560, 570, 575 (see also specific authors)
remoteness of, 108, 114, 337
on sexual proclivities of musicians, 346–347
shyness of, 28, 140, 201, 275, 337
on singing and human voice, 156–58, 296
sole heterosexual experience of, 186, 194
speech defect of, 37, 78, 336
spiritual beliefs of, 28–29, 60, 100–101, 161, 508–9
at summer camp, 106–7
as teacher, 247
tonsillectomy of, 136
women adored by, 113–14
on women artists, 327
Rorem, Ole Jon (grandfather), 17, 18, 26, 32, 37, 70, 73, 74
Rorem, Rosemary (sister), see Marshall, Rosemary Rorem
Rorem, Sine Tendenes (grandmother), 26
Rosand, Aaron, 169
Rosen, Lucie Bigelow, 370
Rosenberg, Harold, 254
Rosenthal, Laurence, 336
Rosenthal, Manuel, 115
Rosenwald, Julius, 63–64, 92
Julius Rosenwald Fund, 63–64, 71, 290
Ross, Alan, 549
Ross, Alvin, 174, 180, 198, 214, 225, 228, 242, 280, 369, 409, 499, 566
Ross, Hugh, 121, 282, 287, 291, 293, 352, 368
Rossini, Gioacchino, 450
Rost, Leo, 301
Rothschild, Edward, 62, 63
Rothschild, Nuta, 62–63
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 561–62
Royer, Fernand, 422–23, 426, 452, 482
Royer, Fernande, 422–23, 426, 440, 452, 482
Royer, Jeannine, 422–23, 440
Royer, Michel, 422–23, 440, 452, 489, 503, 507
Rubinstein, Anton, 54
Rubinstein, Ida, 458
Ruggles, Carl, 228, 259–60
Ruml, Stud, 364
Russell, Bertrand, 116
Sablé, Lucien, 527
Saby, Bernard, 428, 431–32
Sachs, David, 110–11, 112, 124, 164, 198, 225, 294, 373
Sachs, Maurice, 482, 502, 503
Sachs, Oliver, 36
Sade, Marquis de, 500, 538
Sagan, Françoise, 538
Sager, Gordon, 459, 527
Saint-Jean, Robert de, 511, 512, 528
St. Just, Maria, 383
Saint Thomas’s Church (Chicago), 57, 60
Salgues, Yves, 432, 434, 459, 472, 495, 518
Salme, Dr., 491
Salzedo, Carlos, 170
Saminsky, Lazare, 385
Samuel, Gerhard, 294, 394, 402
Sandburg, Carl, 117
Sanders, George, 343, 344
Santayana, George, 25
Sappho, 287, 459, 472
Sara (cousin), 19, 22–23
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 256, 302, 358, 377, 401, 405, 413, 426, 467, 505, 509, 553, 570, 575
Satie, Erik, 25, 207, 211–12, 232–33, 387, 410, 476, 532, 534, 553, 557, 564, 580
Saturday Review, 445–46
Sauguet, Henri, 210, 369, 405, 407, 410, 464, 465, 472, 475, 478, 504, 537, 543, 567
Scalero, Rosario, 165, 167, 178, 179, 189–190, 194, 198, 201, 457
Scarlatti, Alessandro, 99, 106
Schanker, Louis, 542
Schelling, Ernest, 501
Schiller, Johann von, 578
Schippers, Thomas, 570–71
Schmidt, Gladys, 259
Schmitz, E. Robert, 226
Schnabel, Artur, 119, 130, 155, 193, 468
Schneider, Alexander, 216
Schoenberg, Arnold, 53–54, 102, 133, 185, 186, 195, 198, 207, 227, 264, 383, 386, 438, 472, 573
Schubert, Franz, 24, 167, 200, 202, 337, 342, 374, 376, 382, 438, 468, 476, 524
Schuman, William, 208, 350, 385
Schumann, Robert, 193, 223, 504
Schumann, Elisabeth, 170, 202, 230
Schupper, Fabian X., 248
Schuyler, James, 254
Scott, Cyril, 107, 126
Scott, Dan (later Simon Scott), 353
Scriabin, Aleksandr, 37, 139, 158
Scriabin, Miriam, 493
“See How They Love Me,” 339–40
Seligmann, Kurt, 255, 256, 353
Semser, Ethel, 570
Serkin, Rudolf, 167, 168–69, 194, 199
Sermon on Miracles, A, 309, 338
Sessions, Roger, 283, 340, 346
Sessler, Eric, 334
Seven Little Prayers, 312, 338
Seventieth Psalm, The, 191, 196
Shakespeare,
William, 71, 74, 83, 84, 164
Shanet, Howard, 292
Shapero, Harold, 207, 235, 281, 346, 386, 486
Shapiro, Karl, 338
Shapiro, Lillian, 260
Shaw, Artie, 96, 119, 263
Shaw, George Bernard, 102
Shaw, Robert, 298, 314
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 522–23
Sherer, Rolf, 167
Shomate, James, 499
Shostakovich, Dmitri, 97, 175, 294, 413, 535
Sibelius, Jean, 294, 450
Sicilienne, 487–88
“Sick Rose, The,” 230
Sigmond, Robert, 16
Silas (uncle), 26
Siloti, Kiriena, 235
“Silver Swan, The,” 311, 345
Simenon, Georges, 142, 236, 551
Simon, Abbey, 493
Simon, Joan (Lewison), 366
Simon, Sid, 366
Sitwell, Edith, 351–52, 368, 458, 471, 534
Sitwell, Sacheverell, 351, 534
Sivori, Ernesto, 167
Six Irish Poems, 480, 488, 571
“Sleeping Palace, The,” 423
Slobe, Laura, 102
Slonimsky, Antony, 107
Slow Piece for Cello and Piano, 488
Smit, Leo, 314, 346, 485–86
Smith, Bessie, 159–60, 216
Smith, Bill, 243, 271
Smith, Carleton Sprague, 345, 376
Smith, Cecil, 164, 246, 436
Smith, Loren, 134, 224
Smith, Muriel, 170, 230–31, 243, 246, 257, 355, 364, 365, 372, 370, 530
Smith, Oliver, 221, 257, 258
Smith, William Jay, 457, 462
Snow, Carmel, 533
Society of Friends, see Quakers, Quakerism
Sokoloff, Nicolai, 243
Sokoloff, Noel, 243, 246
Sokoloff, Vladimir, 243
Sonata in Four Scenes, 419–20
Sondheim, Stephen, 253
“Song,” 225
“Song of David, A,” 101, 259, 263, 440
“Song of Songs,” 95, 121
Sontag, Susan, 436, 470
Sorel, Felicia, 356
Sorel, Julien, 447
Souvchinsky, Pierre, 432
Souzay, Gérard, 466, 469, 472, 499, 559, 569
Sowerby, Leo, 95, 120–22, 124, 135, 148, 157, 190, 280, 291
Spender, Natasha, 521–22, 527
Spender, Stephen, 158, 289, 294, 351, 468–469, 470–71, 520, 521–23, 527
Spenser, Edmund, 437
Sphinx and the Chimera, The, 179
Spirito, Romolo di, 301
“Spring,” 338
“Spring and Fall,” 260, 338
Stander, Lionel, 255
Stankeiwicz, Richard, 370
Starer, Robert, 288
Starker, Janos, 494
Starkie, Enid, 452
Starr, Kay, 174
Stauffer, Thomas, 110, 116, 365, 405
Steber, Eleanor, 307, 569
Steegmuller, Francis, 497
Stein, Elliott, 469, 470, 471, 499, 535, 575
Stein, Gertrude, 75, 89, 210, 213, 219, 221, 253, 415, 473, 534, 545
Stein, Jean, 192, 383, 583
Stein, Joe, 139
Steinbeck, John, 132
Stella, Adler, 578
Stendahl (Marie-Henri Beyle), 482, 483
Stéphane, Nicole, 436
Sternberg, Jonathan, 439
Steuermann, Edward, 133
Stevens, Wallace, 353
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 350
Stickney, Billy, 80
Stimer, David, 226, 301, 427
Stock, Frederick, 119
Stokowski, Leopold, 97, 98, 99–100, 171, 182, 209–10, 226
“Stopping by Woods,” 338
Strauss, Noel, 385
Strauss, Richard, 63, 139, 322, 342
Stravinsky, Igor, 42, 63, 78, 90–91, 98, 103, 107, 114, 198, 207, 211, 234, 235, 254, 262, 263, 284, 314, 344, 346, 371, 375, 428, 431, 432, 451, 466–67, 472, 476, 485, 486, 548, 568, 575
Streisand, Barbra, 231, 450, 537
Strickland, William, 190, 191, 236, 327, 338
Stringham, Ed, 326, 342
String Quartet No. 1, 288, 488
String Quartet No. 2, 338, 436, 487, 488
Strouse, Charles (Buddy), 335–36, 396, 397
Stryker, Dick, 377
Sturrock, John, 561–62
“Such Beauty as Hurts to Behold,” 316
Suite for Two Pianos, 479–80, 485
Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 565
surrealism, 254, 354, 435, 509, 523, 544, 556
Sutherland, Jimmy, 62
Swanson, Howard, 64
“Sweet Dancer,” 559
Swenson, Mae, 137
Symphony No. 1, 439, 440, 560
Symphony No. 2, 243
Symphony No. 3, 148, 171, 185, 480
Tabuteau, Marcel, 171
Taft, Laredo, 67
Tagrine, Nadia, 478
Talma, Louise, 499
Tangeman, Nell, 202, 344–45, 347–48, 349, 367, 368, 373, 377, 378, 382, 385, 387, 394–95, 437, 452, 453–57, 465–466, 467–68, 480, 488, 498–99, 512, 569, 571, 573, 575, 579, 584
Tangeman, Robert, 345
Tannenbaum, Belle, 102–3, 120, 130, 133, 134, 162, 200, 256, 325
Tanner, Alan, 200, 256
Tarlet, Yves, 504
Tchelitcheff, Pavel, 200, 217, 254, 256, 273, 301, 405
Tcherepnin, Nikolay N., 103
Téchoueyres, Jean, 464
Teicher, Ralph, 352
Templeton, Alec, 379
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 170, 423
Tertian, Paul, 464
Tessier, Carmen, 527
Tessier, Valentine, 557
That We May Live, 260, 261
Thibaud, Jacques, 348
Thomas, Hilda Mary, 164
Thompson, Agnes Rorem (aunt), 40–41
Thompson, David, 144
Thompson, Emmett (uncle), 41
Thompson, Junior (cousin), 41
Thompson, Kathleen (cousin), 41
Thompson, Maxford (cousin), 41
Thompson, Olga (cousin), 41, 44, 109, 373
Thompson, Phyllis (cousin), 41
Thomson, Clara May (Virgil’s mother), 218
Thomson, Virgil, 21, 81, 102, 137, 155, 164, 178, 197–98, 207–13, 217–21, 223–24, 226, 227, 228, 232, 235, 236, 238, 239, 243–44, 246, 252, 254, 258, 262, 268, 271, 274, 278, 281, 282, 291, 310, 313, 317, 318, 322–23, 345, 346, 355, 363, 372, 382, 383–84, 407, 432, 463, 464, 468, 484, 545, 561, 575, 580
Three Incantations for a Marionette Tale, 255
Three Old English Songs, 225
Three Pieces for Voice and Instruments (formerly In Piazzas Palladio), 226, 228, 345, 419
Tibaudin, Henri-Georges, 528
Tiger’s Eye, 361
Tillich, Paul, 53
Time, 249, 251, 260, 290, 294, 308
TLS, 561–62
“To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything,” 479
To a Young Girl, 559
Toch, Ernst, 103
Todd, Miss (teacher), 68
Toklas, Alice B., 88–89, 219, 553, 566–67
Tolstoy, Count Leo, 34, 449
“To Music, to Becalm His Fever,” 479
Torke, Michael, 172
Tosar, Heitor, 281, 292
Toscanini, Arturo, 191, 472
Toumanova, Tamara, 529–30
Tourel, Jennie, 225, 301, 363, 424, 443, 481, 498–99, 569, 575
“Tourist’s Song,” 339
Tree, Iris, 355
Trenet, Charles, 395, 491, 553
Trerisse, Victor, 367
Trotter, Robert, 141, 155
Truebridge, Lady Una, 456
Truman, Harry S, 81, 241, 373–74
Tureck, Rosalyn, 325
Turner, Chuck, 288–90, 307, 310, 355, 359, 364, 369, 372, 522, 527
Turner, Lana, 252, 263, 417
Two-Piano Suite, 436
Tyler, Parker, 119, 254, 255, 256, 273, 353
Tyler, Veronica, 171
Tynan, Kenneth, 446
Undset, Sigrid, 35
University of Buffalo, 318
Ussachevsky, Vladimir, 292
Utah Symphony, 284
Vadot, Monsieur, 435, 469, 479, 490
Vail, Mr. (music instructor), 107
Valéry, Paul, 585
Valeva, Countess, 457
Vanderbilt, Gloria, 444
Van Gogh, Vincent, 368
Van Grove, Isaac, 260
Van Horne, Harold, 139, 141, 144, 155
Varèse, Edgard, 89, 107–8, 228, 353
Varèse, Louise, 210, 211
Vaughan, Sarah, 130
Velde, Rosabel, 421
Vengarova, Isabelle, 169
Verdi, Giuseppe, 63, 321
Verlaine, Paul, 342, 396, 421
Veyron-Lacroix, Robert (Roro), 543, 545–546, 552–53
Vidal, Gore, 101, 181, 288–89, 384–85, 411, 449, 461
Vidal, Yves, 535
Vienna Philharmonic, 439
View, 218, 254, 255, 339, 353, 424, 454
Villa-Lobos, Heitor, 502
Vilmorin, Louise de, 472, 481, 532
Vincent, Gail, 520
Violin Concerto, 354
Violin Sonata, 255, 419–20, 427, 428, 464
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), 304
Wagenaar, Bernard, 287–88, 350, 363, 375
Wagner, Richard, 322, 413, 458, 575
Wald, Max, 158, 162
Walker, Charles, 434, 459, 471–72
Walker, Norman, 268
Wallenstein, Alfred, 210
Walpole, Hugh, 136
Walter, Bruno, 225
Walton, William, 314, 351, 458
Ward, Robert, 288
Washington Ballet Company, 445
Waterbury, Nikita, 462, 472
Waters, Ethel, 70
Watson, Peter, 528
Weaver, Bill, 174
Weber, Ben, 185, 186, 195, 260, 265, 275, 301, 347, 353, 383
Webern, Anton, 185, 232–33, 428, 481
Weidman, Charles, 228
Weill, Kurt, 170, 253, 316, 318, 322, 395
Weinberg, Marian, 125
Weinstein, Arthur, 164, 193, 298, 394, 575
Weinstock, Herbert, 375
Weissberger, Arnold, 448
Weissenberg, Sigi (Alexis), 348
Welles, Orson, 314
Wescott, Glenway, 445
Wessel, Morry, 115
West, Mae, 29, 60, 79, 119, 130, 176, 241, 518, 563
Wharton, Edith, 25, 548, 549
“What If Some Little Pain,” 436–37, 439–440
“Whiskey, Drink Divine,” 488
Whitelaw, Jordan, 352, 368
Whitman, Walt, 15, 260, 314, 487, 540, 546
Whittemore & Lowe, 488
Wigman, Mary, 52, 53
Wilcox, Wendell, 461
Wild, Earl, 190–91
Wilde, Oscar, 11, 42, 74, 110, 253, 506
Wilder, Alec, 370
Wilder, Thornton, 26, 35
Wilk, Maurice, 345, 419
